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7 Essential Warehouse KPIs You Need to Track This Christmas & Beyond
Managing a warehouse is a challenging responsibility at any time of the year, but during the run-up to the festive period, such an assign ment becomes even more difficult. Receiving goods, updating inventory, picking, packing, shipping and everything in between needs...
How to Keep Your Warehouse Safe & Productive
As a warehouse manager, what is the most critical factor for you, safety or productivity? Well, the obvious answer is both, isn’t it? However, some warehouse managers often mistake the two as mutually exclusive and forgo even the most basic safety measures in favour...
Preparing Your Supply Chain For The Festive Period
To those of you who aren’t initiates in the world of the supply chain, you’re probably thinking: Christmas is (at the time of writing) 109 days away, why panic? But professionals in the logistics arena know all too well that this time of year is when things begin to...
How To Calculate LTIFR
Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) is a valuable tool used by many companies to effectively measure how safe their workplace is or to see the efficiency of newly implemented safety schemes. Lost time injuries are injuries which have occurred in the workplace...
New and Emerging Risks for Workplaces
In late 2014, the EU-Occupational Safety and Health Agency bought out some statistics based on a survey they conducted using data collected from workplaces in 36 European countries. The survey focuses on health and safety in establishments when it comes to new and...
Pallet Truck Safety Tips – Loading and Unloading
It is important when using electric pallet trucks that you keep everyone safe through out the operation which is why at SHS Handling we have come up with these simple to follow pallet truck safety tips and advice. Dock and Lorry Height One of the first things to check...